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From: | Colin Campbell |
Subject: | Re: Provide \hide and \omit functions for transparent and void glyphs (issue 6575048) |
Date: | Sat, 29 Sep 2012 10:54:05 -0600 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120827 Thunderbird/15.0 |
On 12-09-29 09:47 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
I am not convinced. Unless I see either a new proposal that I feel I can get behind myself, or more prominent public support for one of the numerous existing proposals including \next, I am going to stick with \single. Since by far the easiest time to press a change is before a first version is installed, people should speak up now if they feel that <c' \next \easyHeadsOn e' g'> is significantly better than <c' \single \easyHeadsOn e' g'> for changing just the head on e', or if they think they have another good name.
From a relatively uninformed point of view, \single seems to be directly and tightly coupled to the object following it, and only to that one object, only for the life of that object. \next doesn't seem quite so definite and restricted, for some reason, perhaps because there could be an implication that it applies to the next instance of the object either before or after the \next token. It's early and the caffeine level is rather low in the brain stem, but \single is the more clear term for me.
Cheers, Colin -- I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back. -Maya Angelou, poet (1928- )
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